The one thing I can think of is when a disk runs out of room it shows down because it becomes harder and harder to find a place to put new data. How full is your disk? There is iozone for benchmarking Disk IO but without the original IO speeds it would be almost impossible to tell if there is an issue. I would use "system monitor" and add the Disk IO graph and see if that is the issue or is it memory or CPU. Lastly I would look at "top" in a terminal to see what is consuming resource. I have seen background indexing eat up 20% of the CPU and almost 40% of IO.
Good practice is to empty the apt cache of old deb updates with "sudo apt-get auto-clean" and or "sudo apt-get clean" There are many hints and tricks around on cleaning up Ubuntu/Debian systems. On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 6:50 PM, Kristoffer Walker <[email protected]>wrote: > I upgraded to Ubuntu 10.10 (desktop) a couple of months ago and have > seen my performance drop ever since. It is now getting to the point > that it is becoming unacceptable. From all my observations it seems > like disk IO is creating the bottleneck. > > I only thing I did majorly different was to install the entire distro > on one disk partition (I've broken it up over 4 partitions in the > past). My swap partition is the same size it's always been. > > Any ideas how I might isolate the problem, or at least be able to get > some actual data that would indicate that disk IO is indeed my issue? > > - Kris Walker > _______________________________________________ > Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org > http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug > > Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) MHVLS Auditorium > Jan 5 - Building a Community Site with Drupal > Feb 2 - Zimbra > Mar 2 - MHVLUG 8th Anniversary - Show and Tell >
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